Staff Backend Engineer - Core Product
GermanyFull-TimeStaff
Salary100,000 - 185,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSBackend DevelopmentPostgreSQLPythonCloud ComputingGenerative AIDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with strong expertise in backend development and distributed systems
- Advanced proficiency in Python or other object-oriented programming languages
- Strong experience designing scalable systems, APIs, and backend architectures in cloud-based environments
- Hands-on experience with serverless technologies, asynchronous processing, and cloud platforms such as AWS
- Solid understanding of relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL, including schema design and performance optimization
- Proven ability to debug complex systems, solve challenging engineering problems, and deliver high-quality production code
- Experience working in fast-paced, high-ownership environments with minimal supervision
- Excellent communication skills
- Comfortable operating in experimental and iterative product environments
- Experience with generative AI, LLMs, or machine learning infrastructure is considered a strong advantage
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems, services, and APIs that support core product functionality
- Build robust data pipelines, workflows, and infrastructure to improve data quality, system intelligence, and operational performance
- Contribute to architecture decisions and system design with a focus on reliability, scalability, and maintainability
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to translate complex business and technical requirements into production-ready solutions
- Develop and optimize asynchronous workflows and cloud-native backend services in distributed environments
- Improve observability, debugging, testing, and monitoring processes across backend systems
- Drive experimentation, iteration, and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance product performance and decision accuracy
- Mentor engineers, contribute to engineering best practices, and promote a culture of technical excellence and ownership
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